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Bacteria used oxygen far earlier than expected, reshaping views on early life, evolution, and photosynthesis origins.

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...